[GNC] How to widen the 'Account' column when entering transactions

[Ken Pyzik]

Ah, Maf - "technically" you are correct, sir.  What you say is all very 
true.  BUT.....

If I WANT  blank space, I can have it.  I can place content in column A 
and then R.  And in between I can have as much blank space as I want.  
And unless I fill all million or so columns, I will always have "space" 
on the right side (they are just empty columns).  Seems to me in GnuCash 
- I can NEVER have space on the left or the right side. Instead, all the 
blank space goes to the Description field (in the middle) - AND I CANNOT 
STOP THAT.  Excel would never widen one of my fields -- it would just 
ADD extra blank columns to the right.

Additionally, and you probably know this, if you turn off gridlines 
(which you have the option to ALWAYS do) - you have ALL the "blank 
space" you want on the right, to the left, or in the middle.

Ergo - You just also made the point for me in how it is different from 
spreadsheet behavior.  Again - I don't want to belabor the point - but 
GNUCash is NOT spreadsheet behavior.  We should just point to the 
already documented behavior and then we won't misguide anyone who thinks 
they can make the columns act like a spreadsheet - when they cannot.

Ken

------ Original Message ------
>From "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
To gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Date 3/12/2026 2:57:54 AM
Subject Re: [GNC] How to widen the 'Account' column when entering 
transactions

>On Thursday, 12 March 2026 04:04:57 GMT Ken Pyzik wrote:
>>   [Excel] does not "automatically adjust" anything unless I
>>  WANT it to.  It let's ME decide.  It does NOT decide for me.
>
>
>Respectfully, Ken, I disagree.
>
>If you shrink cols A and B to 5 px wide, Excel (and other spreadheets)
>"automatically decide" to show extra cols on the right hand side, without
>"asking" the user.  ie your view now has additional empty cols (eg.) R S T
>visible when they were not before and you were not asked if they should be
>shown.
>
>Spreadsheets have (almost) infinite columns to show off to the right.   GC does
>not have spare columns to show to fill the window.   GC isn't a spreadsheet,
>although in many resects the register view layout is very similar and _mostly_
>resizing colums is similar, with the exception that the window will always be
>"full" to the RHS (or wider)... Spreadsheets don't have "blank" to the right
>side, ever!
>
>0.02
>Maf.
>
>
>
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